A. Scott Berg's first book, Max Perkins: Editor of Genius, was met with critical acclaim. It is about the editor at Charles Scribner' s Sons publishing company who worked with Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Jones, and others. This winner of the 1978 National Book Award was reissued in paperback in 1997.

Berg's only other book is Goldwyn: A Biography (1998), concerning the legendary Hollywood producer Samuel Goldwyn. Berg's usual thoroughness is applied to a segment of American popular culture, the studio system that produced movies in the first half of the twentieth century.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, the author of The Little Prince, was a friend of the Lindberghs. His book An Airman's Odyssey (1984) covers his early days as a pilot.

After the enormous press coverage of the kidnapping of the Lindbergh's first child, public attention to their home life...